Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marriage Annulled. Arlene Dahl, 39, Hollywood's ever-flaming redhead (Kisses for My President) and syndicated glamour columnist; and Alexis Lichine, 53, wine exporter and vintage author (Wines of France), her fourth husband (the others: Lex Barker, Fernando Lamas, Christian Holmes III); on grounds of false pretenses (she said he promised, then refused, to have children); after 19 months of marriage, no sign of children; in Los Angeles...
...pulls him down and speaks of love-the panacea for all spiritual ills. "I'm more in love today than on the day I married," he swears, "but my wife won't give me a divorce." Solution: wife swapping, with the intellectual taking over for the husband and the husband going off to his mistress. But the cure turns out to be worse than the disease. The intellectual's misery is contagious, and six weeks later everyone is even more wretched than before. In a frenzy, the exes reunite to get the suicide back on the bridge...
...three principals, only Elaine May, as the wife, is well cast, but she is pitching in a game with no catchers. Peter Falk is too simian and heavy for the popinjay part of her wayward husband, and as a Jewish urban type, Jack Lemmon is frantic without being at all funny. Luv is too good a comedy to die this way; people who have never seen it will do better to find a road company of the play...
...tricks her into helping him join the F.L.N. In The Hours After Noon, a genteel French lecher, visiting an archaeological camp, gestures toward a Moroccan girl and ends up behind a boulder with a wire around his neck. In The Garden, a wife puts a potion in her husband's food because she thinks he has been hiding treasure in the garden; when the poison fails to work, the whole town combines to finish him off with hoes and sickles...
...elective office and that Duncan's public announcement making his son Malcolm the heir-apparent was actually illegal. When Macbeth and Banquo first hear the Witches prophecies, they laugh at them until the noblemen enter to prove the first prophecy true. Later, when Lady Macbeth is egging her husband on, Colicos not only says, "Prithee, peace," but also strikes her to the floor in anger. This man is no willing regicide. When he first meets King Duncan face to face, he kneels loyally and stays there until the king himself has to walk over and pull...